UP Faculty of Mass Communication proclaims 2023 Glory awardees

5 communicators might be honored with the 2023 Gawad Gloria Feliciano—also called the Glory Award—after being chosen as excellent alumni of the College of the Philippines Faculty of Mass Communication (UPCMC).

The 2023 awardees are Lynda Jumilla-Abalos (multimedia journalism), Maria Lourdes B. Cabaero (group journalism), Martika Ramirez Escobar (impartial filmmaking), Atty. Rowena E.V. Daroy-Morales (public service) and Paz Verdades M. Santos (cultural preservation). Just like the earlier awardees, they may obtain sculpted trophies designed by UP professor emeritus Dr. Gigi Javier-Alfonso.

“The 5 winners emerged from an extended listing of deserving nominees this yr. Seven jurors voted for them primarily based on the excellence and impression of their work in numerous mass communication and allied fields,” stated Malou Choa-Fagar, president of the UPCMC Alumni Affiliation which administers the alumni recognition program.

Now on its seventh yr, the annual Glory Awards might be introduced throughout the UPCMC Alumni Homecoming on Nov. 11, 2023, on the UP Movie Institute in UP Diliman.

This yr’s Glory Awards jury of friends was composed of former UPCMC dean and communication analysis professor Dr. Elena E. Pernia,  2021 Glory Awardee for Company Communication Marlu Balmaceda, OneNews anchor and 2017 Glory Awardee for Journalism Roby Alampay, GMA Information Senior Guide and 2018 Glory Awardee for Broadcast Journalism Grace de la Peña-Reyes, UP Vice President for Public Affairs and former UPCMC dean Dr. Roland Tolentino, UP Broadcast Communication and Media Research professor Dr. Daphne Tatiana Tolentino-Canlas, and former ABS-CBN and CNN Philippines information director Jing Magsaysay, who represents the household of Dr. Gloria Feliciano, the founding dean from 1965 to 1985 of UP’s mass communication program, in whose title the award was devoted.

UPCMC alumni homecoming tickets might be obtainable on the venue for P1,000 every to cowl the dinner, awards present, raffle participation, and alumni membership price. Singer-songwriter Jay Durias of South Border Band would be the featured performing artist together with acoustic duo Dindo & Ryan.

The 2023 Winners

Lynda Jumilla-Abalos

Lynda Jumilla-Abalos lined and introduced the information for greater than three many years—on print for Philippine Star, Philippine Each day Inquirer and Manila Occasions and on tv, radio and digital platforms. She obtained the Marshall MacLuhan Fellowship in 2012, the primary TV journalist to be awarded for the reason that fellowship was established in 1997 by the Embassy of Canada within the Philippines. She turned govt editor of ABS-CBN Information Digital in 2019 with duty for the editorial content material and strategic path of its information web site, social media accounts, video channels and different digital properties earlier than her retirement in 2023.

Nini Cabaero

Nini Cabaero is a pioneer and advocate of digital transformation initiatives in Philippine group journalism. She was director of content material for the built-in digital newsroom of SunStar, the one community of group newspapers within the Philippines, and was editor-in-chief of the media group’s flagship newspaper, SunStar Cebu.  Nini was a Sandra Burton–Nieman Fellow from 2013 to 2014 throughout which she spent an educational yr at Harvard College and took programs on the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise. In retirement from full-time work, she nonetheless pursues journalism however in a special capability as a consultant-resource speaker on the combination of print and web site newsrooms, on-line viewers measurement, and methods for managing a digital transition.

Marty Escobar

Filmmaker-cinematographer Marty Escobar has impressed juries worldwide along with her well-thought-out narratives and sharp eye for element. In 2022 she turned the primary Philippine director to win on the Sundance Movie Pageant—the most important impartial movie pageant in the USA—the place her first characteristic movie “Leonor Will By no means Die” was the primary Filipino movie to compete since “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” in 2006. Sundance jurors gave her the World Cinema Dramatic Particular Jury Award for Progressive Spirit for her 99-minute homage to classic Filipino motion films. The movie has garnered eight different worldwide recognitions and was distributed in theaters within the US, UK, Japan, Center East, and Thailand. Escobar’s earlier quick movies “Pusong Bato” (2014), “Dindo” (2014), “Quadrilaterals” (2017), and “Limang Taon Ni Lola” (2013) had been additionally well-received in native and worldwide festivals.

Rowie Morales

Lawyer Rowie Morales has gone again to her mass communication roots in recent times to share her authorized experience and compassion extra broadly among the many marginalized sectors of society. Her return was rewarded with a 2022 Catholic Mass Media Award for Finest Public Service Program on Radio for her DZBB/GMA Community program, “SOS: Serbisyo On the Spot,” the place she serves as co-host and authorized useful resource. Morales has truly been extending free authorized help for a few years significantly to abused girls and kids whereas advocating reforms to enhance the Philippine justice system. In UP the place she is a professor emeritus, she headed the Faculty of Legislation’s Workplace of Free Authorized Support for 20 years and coached UP and Philippine regulation debating groups that received moot courtroom and debate competitions in Washington D.C., Tokyo, and Kuala Lumpur.

Doods Santos

Doods Santos is likely one of the nation’s foremost multi-lingual literary writers. She obtained the Nationwide E-book Award for Bikol Fiction for “Hagong: Mga Osipon” (2014), the 2011 Gawad Francisco Balagtas from the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino for important contribution to the blossoming of Philippine and Bikol language and literature, and the Unyon ng Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) 2011 Gawad Paz Marquez Benitez for excellent achievement as literature and communication instructor.  She was a Fulbright Fellow at Columbia College in New York in 1991. The retired professor now heads a volunteer environmental group, Sumaro sa Salog (Unite for the River) in Camarines Sur. She taught for greater than 4 many years on the Colegio de Sta. Isabel, College of Nueva Caceres, Ateneo de Naga College, Miriam Faculty, UP Clark, UP Diliman, and De la Salle College in Manila.